Turnips tops: tasty and hot, an unique touch for your recipes

04/10/2017 - It is a typical vegetable of some Italy specific areas, particularly Apulia, but it is cultivated in Campania and Lazio too.
The turnip tops are vegetables endowed with a very peculiar taste, lightly hot with a bitter shade.
Both the leaves and the flower hidden in te vegetable can be eaten.
This food is healthy too, rich in minerals, calcium above all, phosphor, iron but it also contains vitamins specifically A,B2 and C vitamins which have detoxifying properties and it is hypo caloric too.

The turnip tops are the main character in many recipes, for example in the well known Orecchiette with turnip tops (a tasty Apulia first course).

Articolo tratto da: OIP Editorial Department

Orecchiette with turnip tops
After having boiled quickly the turnip tops in salted water, drain them well.
Prepare a sautéed with a garlic clove, bread soft inside part and red hot chili pepper adding the turnip tops.
After some minutes add the orecchiette (which meanwhile have been cooked in salted boiling water), amalgamate well and serve them.

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Turnips tops: tasty and hot, an unique touch for your recipes